Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 63

She gave special directions that a certain poison was to be mixed into it while cooking, and as soon as it was ready the cover was to be placed on the saucepan, so that the poisonous steam might not escape.

Who acts: Gulizar, poison, poisonous steam · What happens: give, mix, cook, be, place, not escape · To what, where: special directions, certain poison, direction, cover, saucepan

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gulizar, poison, poisonous steam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 directions	amod
4	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 mixed	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 poison	det
7	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 poison	amod
8	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mixed	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 mixed	aux:pass
10	to	to	PART	_	12 mixed	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 mixed	aux:pass
12	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 directions	acl:relcl
13	into	into	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 mixed	obl
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 cooking	mark
16	cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 mixed	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ready	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ready	cc
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 soon	advmod
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 ready	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 ready	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ready	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 ready	cop
24	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gave	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cover	det
26	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 placed	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 placed	aux:pass
28	to	to	PART	_	30 placed	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 placed	aux:pass
30	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 ready	parataxis
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 saucepan	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 saucepan	det
33	saucepan	saucepan	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 placed	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 escape	punct
35	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	42 escape	mark
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 so	fixed
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 steam	det
38	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 steam	amod
39	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 escape	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 escape	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 escape	advmod
42	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 placed	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	Gulizar	special directions			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme
2	mix	past · passive	Gulizar not said here	a certain poison	direction		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary that=Product
3	cook	gerund	Gulizar not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	poison			ready, soon property	tree rules
5	place	past · passive		the cover	the saucepan		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on saucepan=Destination
6	not escape	might	the poisonous steam				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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